Recent Articles by Carlene Cross
The Bible and Newton's Third Law of Motion
Being a former minister’s wife, I get nervous when people start quoting the Bible. My phobia didn’t happen overnight. It came gradually over decades of studying the book and finding one thing for certain: Scripture is like Newton’s third law of motion—for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. In other words, for every biblical directive that exists, there is another scriptural mandate challenging it. Read More
Defending the Secular State
As a refugee from the Religious Right, Carlene Cross looks back on the upbringing and the education that led her to marry a man who became a minister in a religiously conservative, fundamentalist church. Daring and controversial, her memoir provides a clear-eyed look at how bigotry and intolerance can become the tools of religious dogma, and how the fundamentalist zeal threatens to undermine the basic foundations of American political and religious freedoms. Read More
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